Recent African origin of modern humans - Wikipedia
WEBIn paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans or the "Out of Africa" theory (OOA) is the most widely accepted model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens).
Homo sapiens - The Smithsonian's Human Origins Program
WEBJan 3, 2024 · During a time of dramatic climate change 300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens evolved in Africa. Like other early humans that were living at this time, they gathered and hunted food, and evolved behaviors that helped them respond to the challenges of survival in unstable environments.
Modern Humans Came Out of Africa, "Definitive" Study Says
WEBJul 18, 2007 · The new data support the single origin, or "out of Africa" theory for anatomically modern humans, which says that these early humans colonized the planet after spreading out of the...
Human origins in a southern African palaeo-wetland and first ... - Nature
WEBOct 28, 2019 · Anatomically modern humans originated in Africa around 200 thousand years ago (ka) 1, 2, 3, 4. Although some of the oldest skeletal remains suggest an eastern African origin 2, southern...
Origin of modern humans 'traced to Botswana' - BBC
WEBOct 28, 2019 · "It has been clear for some time that anatomically modern humans appeared in Africa roughly 200,000 years ago," said Prof Vanessa Hayes, a geneticist at the Garvan Institute of Medical...
Genetic evidence and the modern human origins debate
WEBMar 5, 2008 · The qualifying term ‘anatomically modern’ is used to identify our early ancestors that were physically much the same as living humans, but also to distinguish them from earlier hominins that...
Anatomically Modern Homo sapiens - ScienceDirect
WEBJan 1, 2015 · Genetic and fossil evidence shows that anatomically modern humans evolved in Africa around 200,000 years ago, and expanded out of Africa around 100,000 years ago. Analysis of fossil DNA shows that modern humans probably interbred with some local archaic populations, such as Neandertals.
Tracing the peopling of the world through genomics | Nature
WEBJan 18, 2017 · The exact origin of anatomically modern humans in Africa remains unknown, mainly because of the scarcity of fossil and archaeological data in the tropical regions of the continent.
Evolution of modern humans - YourGenome
WEBModern humans originated in Africa within the past 200,000 years and evolved from the now extinct Homo erectus. Human evolution is an active area of research and current evidence supports an ‘out of Africa’ migration theory. Where did we come from? As modern humans, our species is Homo sapiens – meaning ‘wise man’ in Latin.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022
WEBOct 3, 2022 · Research provided evidence that the anatomically modern human, Homo sapiens, first appeared in Africa approximately 300,000 years ago, while our closest known relatives, Neanderthals, developed outside Africa and populated Europe and Western Asia from around 400,000 years until 30,000 years ago, at which point they went extinct.
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